The person who made Zhu Hongsan ecstatic was Yu Chenglong, the only clean official in the Qing Dynasty who could be compared with Hai Rui. Hai Rui had been an official all his life, and the people gave him a nickname of "Hai Qingtian", and Yu Chenglong was even more powerful. The people gave him a nickname of "Yu Qingcai". This nickname came from Jackie Chan's position as the Governor of Liangjiang. The Governor of Liangjiang is the best fat in the world. Yu Chenglong served as the Governor of Liangjiang and even ate vegetables and rice bran every day, so the people in Jiangnan gave him such a nickname.

Yu Chenglong's integrity is similar to Hai Rui. After his death, he had no relatives around him. His colleagues counted his relics and found that he only had boots, a collar with a robe, three taels of broken silver, two thousand yuan, five or six dou of corn, and several bowls of salt and fermented black beans. This level of integrity is probably comparable to that pervert.

Although Yu Chenglong is similar to Hai Rui's integrity, he is countless times stronger than Hai Rui's administrative ability and the way of being an official. Hai Rui is like the sun in the dog days, and anyone around him will be roasted to death. Therefore, no matter what job Hai Rui does, he cannot handle the relationship between superiors and subordinates and colleagues well, and even his own family will not be at peace.

Yu Chenglong is different. Yu Chenglong came out to be an official very late and had already seen the world's human relationships and worldly ways. Therefore, the complex relationships in the officialdom cannot be difficult for him. Instead, Yu Chenglong is very good at taking advantage of the situation to achieve his goals. Therefore, during his more than 20 years of official career, he was very good at dealing with relationships with superiors and colleagues. When Yu Chenglong was the magistrate of Guangxi, the governor Jin Guangzu rated Yu Chenglong as a role model for Guangxi officials, and then rated Yu Chenglong as "excellent". With such a leader, coupled with good abilities and a little luck, Yu Chenglong had the comment of "the world's most honest official" in the future.

However, these are all Yu Chenglong from later generations. Yu Chenglong is still the unlucky person in history. He failed the imperial examination several times, so he had no choice but to rely on his connections to join the Imperial College, which is the National Cadre Management College.

There are three main ways to become an official in the Ming Dynasty. The first is the right path to the imperial examination, which is based on the steps of children, scholars, juren, and jinshi. Such officials of this kind have high backgrounds, great knowledge, and strong backstage (there are teachers in Jinshi, and generally they are grand scholars, and vice premieres are your teacher, and it is difficult not to promote them!).

Another type is the nobles, that is, your ancestors worked hard with Zhu Yuanzhang, so after success, the country gave you a long-term food coupon. There are also some nobles who have won military achievements in later generations. The children of these people can be directly officials, but they can only serve as military positions. If you are transferred to civil servants, you should not think about it.

The third type is the supervisory student, as the name suggests, who are the tribute students of the Imperial College. This system is a supplement to the imperial examination system, because the imperial examination is just an article. Many people cannot take the exam, but they do have the ability. If there is only one way to imperial examination, wouldn’t these talents not be used by the state? Therefore, Zhu Yuanzhang stipulated that those who have excellent grades or qualifications among prefectures, prefectures, and county students should be promoted to the Imperial College for studying in the capital, which is called tribute students, which means to contribute talents to the emperor.

This system did indeed become a good supplement to the imperial examination system at the beginning, but as time goes by, even the best system will change. In the middle of the Ming Dynasty, the tribute student system became a road to heaven prepared by some privileged classes for their descendants to be unable to take the imperial examination path. Although there are not many quotas for tribute students to be officials every year, there is still hope.

Yu Chenglong is the tribute student. Although Hai Rui is not a Jinshi, Hai Rui is a juren. If the Jinshi is an undergraduate, then Hai Rui is a junior college student. Yu Chenglong even graduated from a technical school and is still a private one.

Yu Chenglong was a descendant of Yu Tan, the chief censor of the Ming Dynasty. His family was still very awesome, but by Yu Chenglong's father's generation, his family had already fallen. Although Yu Chenglong had lofty ambitions, he could not pass the imperial examination and had not passed the imperial examination for more than 20 years (your mother, Xiaosheng also had experience, and the reserve cadres could not pass the exam for many years. Could it be that Xiaosheng also had to learn from Yu Chenglong to develop at the age of 44?). In the twelfth year of Chongzhen, the 23-year-old young man Yu Chenglong participated in the provincial examination in Taiyuan, but the result was the same, and he passed by the juren.

There was no way, Yu Chenglong had to go to the Imperial College to study and prepare to take the imperial examinations at the same time, but he might not be able to pass the imperial examinations after entering the Imperial College. Yu Chenglong studied at the Imperial College day and night. After studying for a few years, the Imperial College graduated, but he still did not pass the Jinshi, so he could only go home to review the papers. When he finished his review and was about to take another try, the court no longer took the exam.

At this time, major changes had occurred in the world. Emperor Chongzhen Zhu Youjian climbed to Jingshan and hanged him. Li Zicheng enjoyed it in Beijing for a month before being driven out by Dorgon. Later, Shunzhi entered the pass and was established in the Qing Dynasty. The Qing Dynasty was a barbarian. He never liked to study and exams, so naturally he did not hold the imperial examinations.

Zhu Hongsan, who was in Jiangnan, had an imperial examination, but Yu Chenglong's hometown was in Shanxi, and he went to Nanjing with more than a thousand mountains and rivers. At the same time, the northern provinces were in chaos, so Yu Chenglong had to give up.

However, a few years later, the turn of the situation was changed. Zhu Hongsan eliminated the Qing Dynasty and reopened the imperial examination. At this time, Yu Chenglong left his hometown and came to the Imperial College in Beijing again to continue the imperial examination. Unfortunately, Yu Chenglong had not passed the exam yet, so he had no choice but to sell his house in his hometown and rented a small house in Beijing. While studying, he was preparing for the imperial examination for the 12th year of Shenwu.

At noon that day, Yu Chenglong had just finished reading and wanted to heat up the leftover porridge in the morning so as to eat for lunch. At this time, he heard the noise of a large group of people outside the door.

"The factory governor, this is Guang'anmen Caiyuan Hutong, and Yu Chenglong's home is in front of it!"

As soon as the words outside finished, someone broke the door outside and shouted loudly outside: "Yu Chenglong! Is Yu Chenglong at home? We are from the East Factory!"

Yu Chenglong knew that the East Factory was a bunch of wealthy wolves, tigers and leopards, but at the beginning of the new dynasty, the rights of these factories and guards were greatly reduced. There was nothing to do and he didn't dare to harass ordinary people at all. Why did he come to his home today?

Yu Chenglong did not dare to neglect, so he quickly opened the door and saw a group of Dongchang men standing at the door, surrounded by an old eunuch in his forties or fifties.

Before Yu Chenglong could salute, the big man who knocked on the door pulled Yu Chenglong out and cursed: "You are Yu Chenglong? Are you blind? Don't you kowtow when you see the factory supervisor?"

Yu Chenglong was a scholar. He heard that man say this and said angrily: "The emperor of this dynasty has an order. If you have fame and fortune, you don't have to kneel down. I am a tribute student, so why should I kneel down on you?"

"Oh, is it going to pull the horizontal line?" The big man pulled out his waist and scabbard and was about to hit Yu Chenglong in the leg. At this time, the old eunuch spoke.

"Stop, don't be rude!"

The old eunuch spoke so well, and the big man quickly stood aside with his hands hanging down.

The old eunuch came to Yu Chenglong and smiled kindly, "Are you a tribute student from the Imperial College?"

Yu Chenglong nodded and said, "It's just right! What's the matter with my father-in-law?"

"Haha, our family is Li Chengen, the governor of Dongchang Factory, Yu Chenglong, you are going to develop, come with our family!"

Yu Chenglong has been in the market for a long time and has heard of these Dongchang killing cases. He has always liked to say slander, saying that you want to become prosperous, and then bring back to Dongchang for torture. Yu Chenglong didn't expect that as a poor scholar, how could he mess with Dongchang?

When he died at the beginning of his life, Yu Chenglong felt a pain in his heart. He had failed for many years of imperial examinations, but his old wife and young son suffered. Thinking of this, Yu Chenglong sorted out his clothes, and then said righteously: "Please wait a moment, and write a final letter to his wife!"

Lee Cheng-en was stunned when he heard Yu Chenglong say this. What suicide note was written? But when he saw Yu Cheng-long's appearance, Li Cheng-en knew that this guy had misunderstood.

Lee Chengen laughed and said, "Yu Chenglong, our family is not here to capture you. Do you think we need our governor to come to this broken place in Nancheng in person to capture you, a tribute student? To be honest, you are going to develop. Today, the one who wants to see you is the emperor and His Majesty the emperor!"

When Yu Chenglong heard that the emperor wanted to see him, he was stunned at first, and then tears flowed down. He thought that he had been useless for many years of imperial examinations, but now the emperor is willing to see him, and he finally made it through.

When Lee Cheng-en saw Yu Chenglong crying, he thought he was scared, so he quickly comforted him and said, "Yu Cheng-long, don't cry. It's a good thing for the emperor to see you, and you won't have to stay here in the future!" After Lee Cheng-en said that, he looked at Yu Cheng-long's residence.

In order to save money, Yu Chenglong rented a small house in Yongding Gate. The house was built under the Yongding Gate city wall. There were only three brick walls, and one side was the south wall of Beijing. The houses in this place were worth money in later generations, starting at least 100,000 per square meter, but in the Ming Dynasty, this was an absolutely illegal building.

Houses are not allowed under all urban walls, and a 30-meter fire path must be left to prevent the enemy from attacking the city. However, after peace for a long time, no one will manage it. Some people who have no money will build houses based on the city walls, so as to save money, can they save a wall after all?

Yu Chenglong lives in such a house, and the rent is cheap, but it goes without saying that it is narrow and cramped.

"Yu Chenglong, this time the emperor summoned him will be highly valued, and our family will rely more on Yu Gong in the future!"

Li Chengen naturally knew what the emperor was looking for Yu Chenglong, but now there are so many people and eyes that are inconvenient to say. However, Li Chengen knew that as long as Yu Chenglong could handle this matter in Henan well, he would definitely be able to use it by the emperor, so he came to make friends first.

Yu Chenglong nodded, wiped his tears and said, "Please wait, lock the door down!"

Li Chengen looked at the yard with no other bundles of firewood and grass and couldn't help but say, "Mr. Yu, the emperor summoned him, I dare not let the emperor wait for a long time. Besides, there is nothing to steal in your family. We will leave two people to guard the family for you, so it's important to go see the emperor first!"
Chapter completed!